Fever Make it Ten Straight with Ruthless Showing on the Road.
By caitlin grrewood
The West Coast Fever Have Become Notchared Ten Conxutive Wins, Dismantling The Sunshine Coast Lightning 69-54 in a Dominant Performance.
LED by Alice Teaague-NEELD and Anchored By
The Jamaican Duo of Jhaniele Fowler-NEMBHARD and Shaice Beckford Combined Early to Open The Scoring, While the Lightning, Missing Origen Diamond Cara Koenn Due to A Foot Injury, Quickly Found Themsels on the Back Foot.
Jordan Cransberg Loked Composed and Confature in the Midcourt, Deielding Clean Ball to Her Shooters. Fever Surged to a Six-Agal Lead, and Lightning Coach Belinda Reynolds Called A Time, but IT did, to Halt the Visitors’ Momntum.
The Home Side Introduced Courtney Bruce for Tara Hinchliffe in a bid to quiet the fever attacked.
The Lightning Were Formed to Rely on Super Shots to Stay Within Strike Distance, But Fever’s Control and Conceptiony Saw them Take a Commanding 10-Agal Lead InTo The first Break.
The home side camera with more urgence in the Second Quarter, Showing Improving Drive and Attacking Movement. How, they Continued to Struggle Against Fever’s Suffocating Defensive Pressure.
Dehaney Was Dominant in the Circle, Combing with Sunday Arter to Force Represated Turnovers and Disrupt the Lightning’s Timing.
Beckford Continied to be a workhorse across
Lightning Managed a SMLL SURGE, Stringing Together Back-To-Back Goals, Prompting Fake Coach Dan Ryan to Call a Timeout, Instructing His Side to Slow The Home Side’s Pace. The Visits Rsponded IMMEDIIOLY, Regainaling Control Behind the Seamless Midcourt Efforts of Cransberg and Teaague-Neeld.
Despite Another Timeout from Reynolds Late in the Term, The Lightning Had No Annswees to Fever’s Dominance.
Crucial Super Shots Kept Halftime.
The Home Side Opened the Third Quarter with Renewed Energy, Racing Out to a 4-1 Run to Close the Gap Slightly. Fever Responded by Introducing Fran Williams for Dehaney and Brink on Zoe Cransberg at Centre, Replacing Twin Sister Jordan, Who Exited with An Impressive 18 Assists, 28 Feeds and Four Turnovers.
Despite Lightning’s Sharpe Start, Fever Remained Composed. The home side edged the Quarter Heading INTO The Power Five, Narrowing the Margin to Eight with Just Over Two Minutes Remaining. But they are the progress was Again Stalled by Costly Errors.
FRETWELLLLANUED to Look Usrtain und The Post, Her First-Half Hesitation Creeping Back in Under Tight Defensive Press from Williams As Fever MainTained Control to LEAD by 10 Heading INTO The Final Term.
Fever Turned the Screws in the Final Term, Deielding A Defensive Masterclass That Left The Lightning Feeders Scrambling for Options. The previous from the Visits caused chaos in Attack, and as the Fever Pulled Further AHEAD, The Usually Vocal Home Crowd Was Left Subdeed.
Teaague-NEELD Continued Her Dominant Outing, With Her Reletless Drive Forcing Yet Another Change from the Lightning, With Kristiana Manu’a BROGHT on in Wing Defence.
Fever’s EFFICINIY WAS UnMATCHED Through The Game, Averanging Just 28 Seconds Per Goal Compared to Lightning’s 42, and they succred to a 12-4 lead in the quarter before a few Late super Shots Gave Lightning A Modest Lift.
Despite Three Two-Point Goals from the Hosts, it wasnte engravity to Close the gap, and fever powerd to a 69-54 win.
Teaague-Neeld Was Fittingly Named MVP.
